Older management texts used the term “making widgets” when talking about the never-ending trek through life with work at the center of the story. Get up, make widgets all day, recover on the weekends, retire at 65, have your major medical event and die within five years.
Are you making widgets or making a difference? As the leader of your organization are you reflecting, observing and improving? Are you making the best use of your time? Are you creating the proper atmosphere for your team? After all, they’ll spend over half of their waking hours working for you. There’s a certain level of responsibility that goes along with your being their leader.
OK, enough of the rhetorical questions. Bottom line: are you ready to commit to a model that allows your priorities to drive the situation? Believe it or not, our organization runs into quite a few people unwilling to modify their business style, too close to retirement to allow any “rocking of the boat,” unwilling to take any risk even if it might improve their life, their team’s situation, their owning experience, or their customers’/clients’/patients’ experience. If you are one of “those,” if you don’t want to change, if you don’t believe you can improve your life, then you definitely need to go ‘sit on a mountain and reflect’ upon how you really want to handle your only shot at life, your only shot at doing it the right way. Assuming you are willing to embrace a simple model which will make you much more effective and focused and reduce the time you spend on urgent, less important things, let’s get into the details!
Leave a comment here
